MAMEWAH v1.51 Released!

[Minwah]

This one's mainly a bug-fix, with a few improvements:

MAMEWAH v1.51 (20/09/04)

Bugs Fixed:

'keep_movie_preview_aspect 0' would not work (fixed),
Run Time Error 52 may occur for various reasons (fixed),
Run Time Error 91 may occur for various reasons (fixed),
If the blank screen saver was launched by fault (eg if a scr screensaver was not found) then it would be un-exitable (fixed),
If the blank screen saver was launched by fault and 'enable_music_in_screensaver 0', music would incorrectly continue (fixed),
Screen saver would sometimes launch right after a game was quit (fixed),
'show_dos_box auto' would not work with certain list_generation_method's (fixed),
Emulator-specific music would not work (fixed),
Clone info would not be removed from games added to a list with 'display_clone_info 0' set (fixed),
Games may not have been correctly added to most_played / longest_played custom lists (fixed),
Preview movie may not have played after switching emulators (fixed),
Main form would disappear leaving options menu visible when exiting via menu (fixed),
Closing options menu (if above a movie preview) would cause part of movie to be cut off (fixed),
Holding up/down at top/bottom of list would cause image(s) not to update (but movie does) (fixed),
Screensaver may have attempted to kick in while or after 'exit' sound was playing (fixed),
controls_dat_viewer_options would be added twice to commandline (fixed),
Big font / crashing problem (Run Time Error 13) with regional settings which use ',' as decimal seperator or non-English language setting (fixed at last!),
Un-neccessary refreshment of current game images/text when activating (non-used) input (fixed).

Improvements:

Made Options menu disappear after generating custom lists, as per previous versions,
Adjusted initialisation sequence for a 'cleaner' look,
Ctrlr files now accept regular pipe '|' as well as '

[JoeB]

let me be the first to say "you're the best!" and offer you a beer!

You deserve it!

[screaming]

This one's mainly a bug-fix, with a few improvements:

MAMEWAH v1.51 (20/09/04)

  Wow, it looks like MAMEWAH's come a long way while I've been MIA! Great job, Minwah!  I can't wait to check it out!

-Steve

[Hoagie_one]

 Wow, it looks like MAMEWAH's come a long way while I've been MIA! Great job, Minwah!  I can't wait to check it out!

I was thinking the same thing

[simplygriff]

Great!  I've been waiting for this to put it on my system since I was moving when the last update came out.  Thanks a lot Minwah!
-G

[sac01]

Thanks for all the hard work Minwah!  I was just ganna message you with the "exiting a game and the screensaver kicks in bug" but too late.

I recently switched one of my cabs from using advmenu to mamewah, and everyone who's seen it raves.


thx
sac

[stuzza]

Thanx for the update.   Good to see the bugs squashed early!  I thought some of them may have been caused by my user error, now I know it wasn't just me

[SpamMe]

Very nice. What's the best way to update without losing settings or reconfiguring?
Edit
Whoops, saw this on your forum

Yes, just download the update and unzip it into your MAMEWAH folder - only updated mamewah.exe, and docs are included so nothing except those files will be overwritten...your old settings will remain

[Popcorrin]

I have setup mamewah v1.51 and have just about all my emulators working,  the only problem I am having is with pc games which I had working fine on .97 and before.  I have all the settings in the ini file the same as they were in .97 and the games appear in mamewah.  When I press 1 though nothing happens.  

Does anyone have their pc games working in the new version and if so could you please post or IM your ini file.   Thanks.

[Onji]

Thanks so much Minwah!

[Minwah]

I have setup mamewah v1.51 and have just about all my emulators working,  the only problem I am having is with pc games which I had working fine on .97 and before.  I have all the settings in the ini file the same as they were in .97 and the games appear in mamewah.  When I press 1 though nothing happens.  

Does anyone have their pc games working in the new version and if so could you please post or IM your ini file.   Thanks.

I meant to make a pre-configured pcgames.ini - must've forgot  

Try show_dos_box yes, if you haven't already...

[ries]

Thanks for your great frontend and this update!

[wj2k3]

To run PC programs, this what I did.

Created a 'ROM' folder within which I put windows short-cuts to the programs I wanted to launch.  I am currently at work (shhh..) so I just created shortcuts to Notepad, IE and Firefox.

Copied Mame.ini to PC.ini. (also copied Mame-o.ini to PC-0.ini)
Set the rom path  in PC.ini to the one I created above.

rom_extension                LNK
list_generaion_method   rom_folder

emulator_executable       path\LNK.bat  (more on this later)
send_rom-path                1
Send-rom_extension        1
quotes_around_romnames 0
long filenames                      1
show_dos_box                     no



For the bat file I just created LNK.bat with the only command that it contains is:

%1

I created this bat in the rom folder to keep everything together and used the correct path in the ini file.

This way I don't have to create a BAT file for each program.  I just right click on the program and send a short-cut to the desktop and then drag-n-drop that shortcut into the 'rom' folder.

This is using Windows XP Pro.

-wj2k3

[Minwah]

To run PC programs, this what I did.

Created a 'ROM' folder within which I put windows short-cuts to the programs I wanted to launch.  I am currently at work (shhh..) so I just created shortcuts to Notepad, IE and Firefox.

Copied Mame.ini to PC.ini. (also copied Mame-o.ini to PC-0.ini)
Set the rom path  in PC.ini to the one I created above.

rom_extension                LNK
list_generaion_method   rom_folder

emulator_executable       path\LNK.bat  (more on this later)
send_rom-path                1
Send-rom_extension        1
quotes_around_romnames 0
long filenames                      1
show_dos_box                     no



For the bat file I just created LNK.bat with the only command that it contains is:

%1

I created this bat in the rom folder to keep everything together and used the correct path in the ini file.

This way I don't have to create a BAT file for each program.  I just right click on the program and send a short-cut to the desktop and then drag-n-drop that shortcut into the 'rom' folder.

This is using Windows XP Pro.

-wj2k3

Note that if you enter 'PC' as your Emulator Executable, you don't need the batch file - MAMEWAH has built-in-shortcut launching especially for PC games/apps.

Also note that some (many) PC apps work with 'show_dos_box no', but some (probably also many) require this is set to yes.

[visciouslymamed]

I am getting RT 445. This was not a problem for me in v1.5. It seems to be caused by the movies. Most of the movies work perfectly, but a few cause the error when the fe tries to load them. I think these are all movies I made, so this could be tied to a codec issue.

[Minwah]

I am getting RT 445. This was not a problem for me in v1.5. It seems to be caused by the movies. Most of the movies work perfectly, but a few cause the error when the fe tries to load them. I think these are all movies I made, so this could be tied to a codec issue.

Possibly...a few other people have reported this error message (in v1.5), but I haven't seen it myself.  Did you use the same movies in v1.5?  I have not altered anything as such which would prevent movies playing now if they did before.

If you could narrow it down to whichever movies, maybe another user (or I) could try them out to confirm...

[Popcorrin]

I figured out what I did wrong.  Where it asked for the emulator executable I had pc in lower case letters instead of PC.  I changed it and it now works fine.  

Thanks and I must say once again Minwah that you have a great frontend that just keeps getting better.

[Minwah]

I figured out what I did wrong.  Where it asked for the emulator executable I had pc in lower case letters instead of PC.  I changed it and it now works fine.  

I think this is left over from before when 'pc' would automatically be changed by MW to 'PC'...I'll make it non-case-sensitive in future...